Day 25 - MDF Tags

I firstly gave them all a coat of white gesso followed by a coat of white tinting base. Then I applied a few colours of DW paint.

I added some stamping with black and red stazon and white gesso.

Next I added an image, but I didn't want to cover the whole of the backgrounds.

Finally added a bit more colour and some fibres.

Large Boho Fabric Tags

Coloured some pieces of lace with DW and Pebeo paint.

Covered the tag with fabrics and added lace and gems.

Patterned paper on the back.

Close up of the tassels and the gems.

Sewed around the edges. Not neat, but it wasn't meant to be.

Tag two initially covered with one piece of fabric.

Back of the tag, patterned paper.

This was cut from another piece of fabric and gems added.

Gems added to the painted lace.

Another piece of fabric added and also a part of a doily which has been painted.

The two tags side by side. They are quite large, approx 8.5" x 5.5".

Altered Game Pieces

Added patterned paper, a tassel from an earlier make, gems to the green one and a bulb shaped safety pin to attach with.

Bright Set of Tags

Been playing with some brighter paints from Dina & Dyan to create these backgrounds.

Painted the chipboard pieces with black gesso.

Covered them with a layer of gloss varnish to brighten them up.

And finally I used dimensional paint to create the dots on the chipboard pieces.

Media Board with Dina Wakley

Earlier in the week I saw a workshop pop up on Facebook, so I decided to treat myself.

I took a workshop today at Art from the Heart with Dina Wakley. It was so much fun, she really is wacky but so lovely with it.

As most of you who know me will know, I really don't get journaling which is why I chose this workshop over the others, as we were using media board as the substrate.

And all back to the front for a demo on how to use the scribble crayons.

Stamped images coloured with acrylic paint and scribble crayons.

These are the two lovely ladies I kept company with all day, on the left Lynda from Watford and on the right, Sue from Wigan.

Then another demo on how to construct the book using washing tape. I fell in love with the scribble tape but unfortunately they'd sold out in the shop.

So this is my completed book.

The inside housing the tags.

The two tags in the middle creating the main image.

And the book opened up with the left and right tags folded back.

And finally the back cover. This was this mornings project.

The first of the afternoons projects was a box, with or without a lid, again constructed from the media board. We also had to make our own washi tape for this one.

After a few more steps that I didn't get any photos of we ended up with a box.

I decided to go with the bottom and a lid for mine, so this is the top.

And just to prove that is does actually stand up!

And this was the third project, but we started it first after lunch and then had to wait for the paint scribble to dry before we could add the black.

And I was very good, this is all I bought. I would have got more but apparently most of the order that arrived on Friday was missing!!

And another sort of surprise when I arrived back home, however it turned to disappointment when I opened them to find only nine of the twelve colours that I ordered way back in January, even though there was in invoice in the envelope for all of them!!!!

Triptych Teesha Style

I had a bit of a brain wave last night and rushed off to gesso three square coasters, I didn't get any further as Fraz wasn't happy I'd moved, so I had to retreat back to the settee so he could sit on me through the rest of the fireworks!! So this morning I painted them in dylusions paints, but it wasn't thick enough and you could still see the writing on the beer mats, so I went over them with the Dina Wakley heavy bodied paints, that sorted them out. Made the border from odd bits and bobs and then created my main image.

Stuck the middle section on first and then cut the top and bottom off the main image and lined them up on the respective mats. Outlined the image with a black fude ball pen as it works great over Dina's paints, added a few lines and doodles and filled in the backgrounds with a white sharpie pen.

Once I'd taken the previous photo above, I decided it needed more doing to it, so I added some colour to the cheeks and some freckles. Spruced up the hair a bit more, gave the shoes a colour lift and added a few dots to the borders.

Over at PaperArtsy they have a theme of triptych and Stampotique have a theme of bright colours.

A Trio of Teesha Tags

After watching Patti Tolley Parrish's You Tube stream which you can see here, I just had to have a go at the first part of the tag and this is what I ended up with. If you just want to see the technique you need to go about an hour in.

And then I had a play with some Teesha Moore and magazine images to create this tag.

And more of the same.

And the final one, again using the Teesha images.

Did you spot the common denominator in them all?

Had great fun making these and building the images up.